| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1450. The Statue of Lorenzo de’ Medici |
| | | By James Ernest Nesmith |
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| MARK me how still I am!—The sound of feet | |
| Unnumbered echoing through this vaulted hall, | |
| Or voices harsh, on me unheeded fall, | |
| Placed high in my memorial niche and seat, | |
| In cold and marble meditation meet | 5 |
| Among proud tombs and pomp funereal | |
| Of rich sarcophagi and sculptured wall,— | |
| In death’s elaborate elect retreat. | |
| I was a Prince,—this monument was wrought | |
| That I in honor might eternal stand; | 10 |
| In vain, subdued by Buonarroti’s hand, | |
| The conscious stone is pregnant with his thought; | |
| He to this brooding rock his fame devised, | |
| And he, not I, is here immortalized. | |
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